9 ideas
16052 | 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T] |
16053 | 'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T] |
16056 | Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T] |
16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
13095 | Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
22200 | If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle] |
2117 | The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz] |